Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] gitignore: do not ignore include/linux/

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:43:29 -0800 (PST)

Jiri Slaby <[email-masked]> writes:

> linux entry in .gitignore means that everything in include/linux/
> gets ignored with git 1.7.
> 
> Prepend a slash to entries which are toplevel to avoid that
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  .gitignore |   20 ++++++++++----------
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index efab0eb..fe6ebb9 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -34,16 +34,16 @@ modules.builtin
>  #
>  # Top-level generic files
>  #
> -tags
> -TAGS
> -linux
> -vmlinux
> -vmlinuz
> -System.map
> -Module.markers
> -Module.symvers
> -!.gitignore
> -!.mailmap
> +/tags
> +/TAGS
> +/linux
> +/vmlinux
> +/vmlinuz
> +/System.map
> +/Module.markers
> +/Module.symvers
> +!/.gitignore
> +!/.mailmap
>  
>  #
>  # Generated include files

Actually you want to *not ignore* .gitignore and .mailmap (and
.gitattributes which is missing here) anywhere, not only as top-level
file.  So .gitignore and .mailmap should not be prepended with slash.

   #
   # Top-level generic files
   #
  -tags
  -TAGS
  -linux
  -vmlinux
  -vmlinuz
  -System.map
  -Module.markers
  -Module.symvers
  +/tags
  +/TAGS
  +/linux
  +/vmlinux
  +/vmlinuz
  +/System.map
  +/Module.markers
  +/Module.symvers
   !.gitignore
   !.mailmap

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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